the latest news and the week's top stories international journalists including n.r.c. news crew come under rebel fire while covering the conflict in syria. the race to the rescue president obama signs a stop gap a lot or raise taxes for the wealthy as part of the deal to avoid plunging off the fiscal cliff. plus new documents show the f.b.i. knew about a plot to assassinate leaders of the occupy wall street movement but didn't warn us citizens of the threats to their lives. and deny coral french cinema under new russian citizen the show rock desert yeah it comes to his adopted

homeland after fleeing france other plans for a super time on the super rich. the latest news and the week's top stories this is the weekly here on r.c. with me thanks for joining us and it's the syrian conflict a sore need of violence in the first week of the new year it also led to more casualties among journalists covering the crisis one c. one correspondent was reportedly killed and a reporter for arab channel was among a number of media workers injured when his crew came under rebel sniper fire outside damascus on his correspondent in the region. to details for us. the year has just started but syria's very poor record of handling international journalists covering the conflict isn't looking to get any better so far because this week

earlier reported the pro-government sole journalist a syrian journalist was killed in the country he was wounded on tuesday and later died in hospital and my colleague from r.t. arabic. was among a group of journalists who were injured who were targeted in the crossfire when they were covering movement of a governmental convoy through the country. and that we were moving from street to street and when we reached the dock my colleagues and i got caught in crossfire we tried to escape running one after another fearing that armed rebels would notice us a syrian army soldier accompanied us the entire time the rebels were firing on us and my colleagues and i were wearing bulletproof vests with the word press on the fire and was very intense and it was difficult to find shelter i ran and fell down the room any other correspondents there with me including iranians and syrians and one of the syrian cameramen was also slightly wounded like me and i couldn't say

whether his crew and his colleagues were targeted deliberately by the syrian rebels but some of the nation's some media organizations have been raising concerns as to how the syrian opposition have been handling international journalists working in the country the fate of the ukrainian journalist and how to question of us still remains unknown there have been reports that rebels kidnapped her and demanded ransom for her release and threatened to execute her but it's still unclear whether she is alive and what state she is in the reporters without borders issued a warning for the syrian opposition to treat press in according manner and the same pretty much goes for the pro-government of forces which have also been responsible for the deaths of many journalists since the start of the conflict. a series of attacks on petrol stations and damascus this week has claimed dozens of syrian lives and a middle east expert pepe escobar believes everything and willingness to end the conflict might also come from outside the country. very sad to say to everybody all

over the world that the top geopolitical tragedy of two thousand and thirteen is going to be the top geopolitical tragedy of two thousand and eleven the rape of syria the only possibility it would be that the opposition. in a syrian way this sides not to listen to the saudis the turks the qataris the americans the brits and the french and they sit down with the assad government and they will work out a transitional government or at least the for additional period leading to free and fair elections is this going to happen not likely. troubles bring once again in bahrain please kuantan a look or see a rally with protests nearing the to get mugged well in just a few minutes. she also lives have the legacy of a twenty twelve that could have been us things had turned out differently and

explore some of the challenges the world might face in the coming months. barack obama has given the green light to lure increasing taxes on wealthy americans in a move to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff it follows months of political bickering among us lawmakers right up until the january first deadline and to no deal could have meant billions of dollars of tax hikes and spending cuts which were due to also must come into effect economics expert mark skies a says that although the immediate crisis has been avoided the main underlying problems remain unresolved. the good school clerk is just more theater from bankers and politicians trying to distract people from the underlying root catastrophe that is a bunch of girls and franker who are manipulating the system day in and day out the strong the economy the first go clip was just more bro more theater it doesn't really focus on the true underlying problems that we're going to see more of this

going forward in two thousand and thirteen anything about what the tension from the mobs what their pitch forks and their tortures there are coming out of these people they want to just delay that day of reckoning for many months if they can but the day of reckoning. it's comic. and they can only look forward twenty eight thirteen watch the kaiser report all programs are available for you at all. it's been revealed that the f.b.i. knew of a push to assassinate occupy wall street leaders but didn't alert them to the potential danger the viewer was instead spying on members of the movement branding them criminals and domestic terrorists. has the details. well it's not clear yet why the f.b.i. would neglect to tell activists that there was a potential assassination plot surrounding them what we do know is that new

documents obtained by the partnership for the civil justice fund the u.s. human human and civil rights advocacy organization have revealed that the u.s. the f.b.i. the department of homeland security the u.s. military and private corporations all cooperated together to monitor and investigate occupy wall street protesters as quote domestic terrorists and quote criminals now the more shocking revelation the headline of this story is that reportedly buried deep within the government. mentions of a plan to use snipers to assassinate occupy protesters and the movement's leaders in various cities throughout the country these alleged plans were supposed to be taking place in the fall of two thousand and eleven now the names of the groups or individuals involved in the alleged plot are redacted from the f.b.i. documents but what critics say is clear is that the f.b.i. never alerted any one of the potential any of the potential victims that their lives could possibly be in danger or that there's any threat surrounding them the

partnership for civil justice fund received the f.b.i. documents on december twenty second so this is fairly new information and this was after they filed a request under the freedom of information after now many civil rights attorneys previously have accused the f.b.i. of functioning as a de facto intelligence arm for u.s. corporations during the occupy wall street movement especially as it grew bigger however some critics say they never ever suspected that the f.b.i. would neglect to tell occupy protesters u.s. citizens about an assassination plot surrounding them. i have plenty more for you on line no diplomatic gyptian ambassador to cyprus gets a little slap happy with security had the airport the details of the dust up at all to dot com. and prison guards in brazil have busted the cops trying to smuggle in special kids which would have helped inmates engineer

a breakout which came within a whisker of getting away with it fine dollars at the website if it's feeling guilty. a new russian citizen. is on a trip to his adopted homeland where his received a passport from present person personally the french movie icon has been granted citizenship after a turned his back on his native france in a row over being taxed to the marks but in a question or has the details. french activists have deployed here has mass where the russian president vladimir putin and has received his brand new russian passport so now it's official is that separate you has become

a russian citizen now they're meeting to place in so much you where she is on a personal trip before that he reminds his french to doesn't ship him move to belgium where we pointedly he has some real estate you know this news comes as french president francois juan is trying to push forward a law that will see french citizens who earn more than one million euro piece seventy five percent of their earnings to traps this meanwhile in other french legendary movie i can brigitte bardot is also think of following the footsteps to produce but the reason behind it is completely different now she's also a veteran anymore rights campaigner and she has threatened to apply for russian citizenship if french authorities you for nice pier office take our phones at a zoo in new home. as in head for you in the program by trucking on promises one

one third's cry foul of america's new defense angst which allows suspects to be detained indefinitely and gave the gun tunnel a bay prison camp open. but it's well a long time indeed this may be too ill off to concentrate to tell his own inauguration as the opposition demands a new election if he doesn't show up more on this and other stories after a short break. is he to. leave.

if. this is all she welcomed back police in bahrain have again violently suppressed anti-government demonstration with the west in the kingdom approaching the two year

mark protesters are calling for a transition to a democratically elected government and better rights for the country's a shia majority asma darwish from the european bahraini organization for human rights claims that security forces from abroad stoking the violence by firing tear gas into the homes when armed civilians. security forces who are working for the ministry of interior and the hey are practicing a lot of buy in ends and a lot of buying nations to human rights when confronting when pro-democracy protests and behave in and out of protests and it took place in many different vigils and areas around behaving and all of them all of them got a. crack they were a crackdown by that by the security forces and by hitting who are most to be and not by me and they are working and and they've been super interior and they they were brought from different countries foreign countries like pakistan and jordan

and syria and yesterday in the village where i live and sit on it was tear gas excessively by security forces and i could see security forces running down the streets by my white house and shooting grand in the inside the houses in the movement was completely peace said but after witnessing that west that was during and position to or this this it to asian and behaving or that of illusion in bahrain it is unlike to what is what they are it claiming like they are in kargil human rights in different countries arab countries but when it comes to bahrain they use double standards so the protesters here inviting old though they are those radical protestors they are the minority and not the majority but they are using such methods to prevent them violent security forces from entering their there and their religious and attacking on armed civilians and children like we witnessed and

the video off of the four year old child being attacked by security forces with tear gas canisters. and of course we'll have plenty more feel online and maybe start show hip hop in a format war so ghetto sparks outrage from locals to say it's an insult to all known civic since the full story at. the u.s.s. enterprise space ship from star trek may soon become a reality and discover how america plans to build its own colony in space so that when no man has gone before. i. i. i. i i i i i i. i. i

this week a little was robbed it's time to allowing the u.s. military to detain terror suspects indefinitely including americans without charge or trial the national defense authorization act also extends the restrictions on transferring detainees out of gun tournaments. they're trying congressman dennis kucinich things the move is part of a process that undermines democracy right now we're much more of a garrison and garrison plus. a powerful military which keeps asserting itself globally and it doesn't make america safer and frankly doesn't make the world safer we're spending upwards of six hundred billion dollars for an expanded pentagon presence for more war in afghanistan and for proliferation of war in in yemen and somalia and other places we have a lot of problems here at home that we're not taking care of we have massive unemployment people are losing their homes people are losing their retirement

security and i continue to say that we have to start emphasizing taking care of things here at home instead of developing a bigger footprint around the world as far as our military presence. until now the recent move viewed by critics as antidemocratic obama extended an ox that allows what they want typing of americans without a warrant a u.s. national security agency whistleblower says nobody is safe from being spied on or the full interview with william binney later today but here's a quick preview f.b.i. has access to the data collected which is basically the e-mails of virtually everybody in the country. and they have the f.b.i. has access to it all the congressional members are on on the surveillance to it's not no one's excluded they're all included so yes this can happen to to anyone if they become a target for whatever reason. if they were targeted by the government the government can go in with the f.b.i. or other agencies of the government can go into their database pull all that they

have collected over them on them over the years and reanalyze it also retroactively analyze everything they've done over the last ten years at least working one part and i'm sure i i i believe i've been on it for quite a few years. so i keep telling them everything i think of them in my e-mail so that they when they read it they'll understand what i think of them. but as well as president charge it says currently battling cancer may be too ill to attend his own swearing in ceremony also stay his political rivals are demanding a new election if he doesn't show up to be inaugurated for his fourth term and also it's political analyst eric draitser believes the opposition is taking advantage of the situation to undermine the government. what is important is the fact that the opposition is using this as

a political mechanism by which they can try to deal with the government in venezuela remember that in two thousand and two when the united states and spain and other powers around the world collaborated and conspired to oust chavez in an illegal coup and we saw what the significance of chavez was that he had a base of support on the streets in that country that could not be shaken by an international force and so what they're attempting to do is to use his health situation to break apart that base of support and to convince people that chavez is unable to serve the the constitution in venezuela allows for wiggle room here it does not say that just because he can't be at the inauguration at that given moment that there has to be new elections or that is what the opposition is trying to create something that is not explicit they're trying to make it explicit the constitution it says that it can be delayed there are alternative arrangements that can be made the swearing in can take place in

a different location and also it says that the new elections can only be called if and only if the elected president is permanently unable to serve there is no indication that chavez won't recover from where he is now so to say that he's permanently incapacitated is not one hundred percent true. and some other international news and briefly you this hour a standoff between police and a gunman in the u.s. state of colorado has claimed the lives of three people who were being held hostage it's believed the three were killed by the armed man before the barricaded house was stormed the gunman was also killed while one captive managed to escape it happened in or out which last year saw twelve people killed and dozens injured in a cinema shooting during a movie premiere. a pakistani soldier has been killed and another injured during a raid by india's military into the part of kashmir ministered by pakistan india says its troops were in retaliation to shelling that hundred to home reports say

exchanges of fire continuing in the disputed region rashmi has been a source of dispute between pakistan and india for decades but a cease fire has been in place since two thousand and three. the round one hundred british loyalists in the northern irish capital belfast have attacked police officers who retire later with water cannon authorities are also investigating reports of shots fired during the clash the previous night so nine officers injured and several riots that broke out across the city loyalist anger was sparked by a move to under century old traditional flying the british union flag over city hall permanently thrashed yeah. it's been a week of new year's celebrations around the globe with fireworks and cheering crowds greeting twenty thirteen and there were mixed emotions regarding the gear that's passed it was some sad to see it end but many more hopeful of better times ati's there's a couple of takes a look at the world that could. twenty

twelve was certainly full of disappointing headlines hope fueled by the arab spring turned into the turmoil of the arab autumn the war in syria claimed countless lives and the fiscal crisis all the european union torn apart at its very seams and the problems facing our world today certainly don't offer themselves up to an easy fix what if things had turned out differently what if opportunities were actually used a pawn instead of missed well here's our look at the two thousand and twelve headlines that could have been. diplomacy succeeds in syria ending bloody conflict. instead this was the image of syria the world saw increasingly violent clashes between government forces and the opposition had claimed more than forty thousand lives efforts to negotiate a diplomatic solution fell flat because divisions ripped apart both the country and

the international community hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled to neighboring states where many have found conditions to be dismal meanwhile syria's war is threatening to spill over its borders as tensions escalate within and in the region. have told me to triumph the sanctions slashed as iran's nuclear to accept. gunning to end gun fire the us rules to restrict foreign. mideast peace israelis tuesday packed with palestine. yet this was their reality israel's assault on palestinian militants in gaza israel's anti-missile shield repelled most attacks on its territory but a strike claimed the lives of more than one hundred sixty palestinians many of them civilians just might harsh condemnation from many in the international community the war and israel's subsequent decision to construct three thousand new settlements effectively slammed the door shut to any prospects of peace go people

power moment you step aside and let democracy in. get lost get most notorious quintile the most prison permanently shot. euro zone cuts the cuts and lifts austerity. but the news of austerity only tightened as deep public sector cuts brought thousands of angry demonstrators to the streets of greece spain italy and portugal. the worst economic crisis of a generation has battered the european union's very foundations exacerbating tensions between member states with some regions desperately wanting out i grew up in a europe that was divided from east to west but i'm now living in a europe that is divided from old to self never at any point in the history of this union has there been more discord of rank that we covered. corporate cash for the campaign coffers as part of the us political please. know we here for u.k. british quit european union. we can leaks founder julian the solyndra point to un

free speech and. instead a song remains a political refugee at ecuador's london embassy where he's been granted asylum he continues to fight extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes charges that he says are politically motivated and tied to his work in leaking international government secrets. the power of people speaking up and resisting together terrifies corrupt democratic power so much so that only people here in the west and the enemy of governments an enemy to be watched and enemy to be controlled and to be impoverished true democracy is not the white house true democracy is not. true democracy is the resistance of people with the truth against flies from top to right here in london every day ordinary people

teach us that democracy is free speech and dissent. from heretic to hero american whistleblower bradley manning finally free. drowning almost more nations agree to end iraq of remote controlled war. egypt's arab spring sees democracy defeat hardline islamist. the reality on the ground was anything but egyptian president mohamed morsi is pharrell like power grab unleashed fury and frenzied street battles and a fast track to constitutional overhaul referendum left a bitter opposition eager for change for them two thousand and twelve saw the arab spring transform into an egyptian nightmare had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant to dictators. in the order to that we made elections a revolution and elections to choose someone to the present us it turned out that

this guy is also a tyrant himself and these headlines may have been the stuff of imagination but that sea of twenty thirteen can bring any of them to life we think nothing of r.t. moscow and after a short break we'll take a look at the people who prepared for the cause make calamity that never was the one apocalypse. join me on a journey to the heart of the kremlin to a place is hidden from the tourists you're going to meet some real kremlin insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . eat.

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